Law Students

Ryan was above average even by Lake Wobegon standards

Anyone interested in education policy and/or the No Child Left Behind act would do well to read Jim Ryan's piece in Slate.  Much like his Con Law lectures it's filled with insightful analysis and his own brand of dry wit. 

Math and science teachers are in short supply, and there aren't enough good teachers in high-poverty and high-minority schools. A partial answer to this problem has been known for a long time. It's called money. To attract more and better qualified teachers, and to attract them to particular subjects and particular schools, we need to pay them more. The federal government has money. You see where this is headed.

Whoa! 

The one thing we would keep would be the ice cream days that came after standardized testing.  As fourth graders we had a very pro-ice cream education agenda.

Fixing Education Policy (Slate) 

Full post as published by TJ's Double Play on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).